Reported on golang-nuts:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/6vxv4xRPT38/bKzf1oM7v8cJ
sync.Pool does not release memory on GC
Introduced in:
https://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=ad21d6ca5d82#
Marking as Release-Go1.3.4 so that we can decide later if we ever do 1.3.4.